Cannon v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for assault to murder, the punishment being assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary. '

There are several questions suggested for revision. The State introduced an eyewitness whose name was Herring. He testified to the facts and circumstances of the difficulty. His testimony would show a sudden trouble, and a shooting in consequence of it that might suggest an assault to murder, or not more than an aggravated assault. The evidence tends to show that a conversation occurred between the father of defendant and the alleged assaulted…